Lantern.



No. 836,5?4. PATENTED Nov. zo, 1905. J. P. HAPPBY.

LANTERN APPLIUATIQN H LBD 1111.10, 1905.

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JAMES F. HAFFEY, OF TIFFIN, OHIO,

ASSIGNOR IO CHARLES S. BARON,

OF TIFFIN, OHIO.

LANTERN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2o, 1906.

Application filed February 10, 1905. Serial No. 245.106.

To wil whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. IIAFFEY, of Tiffin, county of Seneca, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce improvements in tubular lanterns, provided with a crank; for raising and depressing the globe in order to permit access to the burner, wherein the crank is made to operate upon and preferably to work upon the belt-guard ofthe globe, thereby materially simplifying the construction of the lantern and improving its operative efficiency.

My invention, moreover, includes improved means for locking or yieldingly securing the globe in the raised as well as in the closed position.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure I is a side elevation of my lantern with the globe depressed and both tubes presented, the bail being partly broken away. Fig. II is a similar view showing the globe raised to its full height and secured in that position, a part of the base of the lantern also being broken away. Fig. III is a view similar to Fig. I, but taken at right angles thereto and illustrating the crank locked in position to secure the globe in place. Fig. IV is a view similar to Fig. II and showing the tube of the lantern in the foreground partially broken away to better illustrate the operative relation of the crank to the belt-guard. Fig. V is a detail sectional view of the tube which carries the crank and stop mechanism, illustrating a preferred form of snap and stop mechanism.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates the base, comprising, as usual, an oil-receptacle provided with a filling-cap 2, and with which the tubes 4 and 5 constitute the frame of the lantern.

3 indicates the burner, pending tube, 7, the cap or canopy sliding thereon, and 8 the bail. The elements referred to may be of any ordinary construction, as illustrated, or of any other form and arrangement preferred.

9 indicates the globe,

6, the central de- Which is assembled with and secured to the canopy 7, as by a ring 10 and side wires 11 and 12, the globe being preferably yieldingly urged against the ring 10, as by spring-clips 13 and 14., operremoving the globe to or atively extending from the bottom of the canopy and of familiar use in the art. One of the clips-14 for example-is preferably provided with a projecting handle 15 for convenience of manipulation in supplying or from the globeholder, which comprises the ring, side wires, canopy, and means for properly assembling the globe therewith. I provide my globeholder, as usual, with a belt-guard 17, so called because it surrounds and defends the globe. It is secured to the side Wires 11 and 12, respectively, by suitable means--as, for example, solder. lVIy invention consists in providing improved means for raising a globe-holder provided with a belt-guard, one, for example, corresponding to that above described, and illustrated in the drawings. The preferred means employed consists of a crank provided with a bearing portion 19, carried in a suitable bearing 20, mounted in one of the tubes-- for instance, the tube 5. From one end of the member 19 projects a handle 21, and from the other end and preferably in the opposite direction projects the operating-lever 22, preferably terminating in a guard-engaging member or oblong loop 23. At a point 24 (see Figs. III and IV) just below the belt-guard, as clearly shown in dotted lines in Fig. III, the lever 22 is bent substantially at right angles -to form an `arm 25, and it is from the end of this arm that the guard-engaging loop 23 extends into engagement with the guard, being slightly upwardly deiiected from the point 26 to accommodate it to its function, which is, by sliding upon the guard, to raise and lower the globe-holder.

In the closed position of the globe-holder the guard, with its operating-crank, which has just been specified, occupies the relative position shown in Fig. III, and by providing means for maintaining that relative position means may be at the same time provided for holding the globe-holder in a closed position. I prefer to employ for that purpose suitable stop mechanism upon the tube 5 in operative relation to the lever-handle 21. The stop mechanism preferably consists of a stoppiece 29, which limits the movement of the lever 21, and a catch 30, over which the lever 21 may yieldingly ride and with which, through its resiliency, it may engage.

As means for sustaining the globe-holder IOO combined and formed of a single piece of wire bent as illustrated in Fig. V and inserted into openings provided for it in the tube and secured by solder. The construction shown in Fig. V is preferred both for its simplicity and the secure anchorage it affords for the members which it comprises. The wire `shown in Fig. V consists, substantially, of a .wire staple having everted extremities 29 and 30, the bend 29 projecting farther beyond the surface of the tube 5 than the bend 80 and the two bends being located at right angles to each other, the bend 30 lying in the plane parallel to that of the belt-guard, or, in Vother words, substantially at right angles to the handle 2l at its point of engagement therewith.

The operation of my device being apparent from the foregoing description of the construction and functions of its several parts, I deem it unnecessary to amplify this specification further than to state that I do not intend to restrict my invention to mere details of construction, but desire to reserve the right to modify and vary the same at will within the scope of my invention, as defined in the appended claims, in view of the subsisting state of the art to which my invention be* longs.

What I claim is- 1. In a lantern, the combination with a frame and a movable globe-holder, comprising a belt-guard, of a crank mounted in the frame and operatively engaging with the belt-guard, and means cooperative with the crank for locking the holder in the lowered position, and means cooperative with the holder for locking the same in the raised po- -sition.

2. In a lantern, the combination with its 5o tubes and movable globe-holder, comprising resilient side wires having bends, of engaging members upon the tube respectively with which the bends thereon engage when the globe-holder is raised, thereby securing the globe-holder in one position and separate means for securing it in the other position.

3. In a lantern, the combination with its tubes and crank-actuated globe-holder, comprising resilient side wires having'bends, of engaging members upon the tubes Vrespectively with which the bends thereon engage when the globe-holder is raised, thereby securing the globe-holder in one position and means for securing it in the other position, said means being coperative with the crank.

4. The combination with a tubular lantern provided with a globe-holder, comprising a resilient side wire having a bend and a globeholder-actuating crank, of a wire within one tube of the lantern formed to constitute with the side wire a snap upon one side of the tube, and crank stop mechanism upon the other side thereof.

5. In a lantern, the combination with its side supports and globe-holder, comprising a belt-guard, of a crank mounted in one of the side supports, and provided at opposite ends with a handle and a lever, said lever having an arm at substantially right angles to the plane of the handle, the arm being provided with means for engaging the belt-guard.

6. In a lantern, the combination with its side supports and globe-holder, comprising a belt-guard, of a crank mounted in one of the side supports, and provided at opposite ends with a handle and a lever, said lever having an upturned arm at substantially right angles to the plane of the handle, the arm being provided with a loop surrounding the beltguard.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES F. HAFFEY. Witnesses: y

FRANK T. Dow, R. FAOINGER. 

